Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.

Kaylee ,'Shindig'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."


Laura - Jul 27, 2021 11:15:48 am PDT #26848 of 27916
Our wings are not tired.

I did enjoy that one, Todd.


-t - Jul 27, 2021 12:28:50 pm PDT #26849 of 27916
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

That's a lot of book for $2


hippocampus - Jul 27, 2021 1:29:45 pm PDT #26850 of 27916
not your mom's socks.

Friends, a favor: Say I'm actually taking the much-much-much-needed vacation. Rec me a book you think I'd like?


dcp - Jul 27, 2021 1:36:28 pm PDT #26851 of 27916
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam," -- Popeye

So many choices!

I just finished re-reading The Book of Kells by R.A. MacAvoy

It is still one of my favorites. If I ever get to visit Ireland, I want to visit all the places mentioned in it.


Jesse - Jul 27, 2021 1:47:52 pm PDT #26852 of 27916
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Oh, speaking of recs, I think my best shot at a prize in the library's summer reading bingo includes a science fiction book with a female protagonist. I haven't read much science fiction at all (other than Bujold), so would love a recommendation!


EpicTangent - Jul 27, 2021 1:49:21 pm PDT #26853 of 27916
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

I haven't read that since high school. I should dig it out.


EpicTangent - Jul 27, 2021 1:52:47 pm PDT #26854 of 27916
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Oh, speaking of recs, I think my best shot at a prize in the library's summer reading bingo includes a science fiction book with a female protagonist. I haven't read much science fiction at all (other than Bujold), so would love a recommendation!

Weeeeeell, Fran Wilde does some remarkable worldbuilding in Updraft.

(SF isn't my main genre either, so that's all I can rec off the top of my head!)


Jesse - Jul 27, 2021 1:59:07 pm PDT #26855 of 27916
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Funny story, I actually have read Updraft etc!


EpicTangent - Jul 27, 2021 2:15:03 pm PDT #26856 of 27916
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Oh, Charlie Jane Anders - I've read her All the Birds in the Sky, which I think skews more Fantasy than SF, but her The City in the Middle of the Night looks good (I own, but haven't gotten to read yet).


bennett - Jul 27, 2021 2:27:00 pm PDT #26857 of 27916

Several of CJ Cherryh's books are SF with female leads: The whole Chanur series; Rimrunners; Cyteen; the Morgaine cycle is a little more fantasy, so that may not work.